ArticleBMC public health2020
Low-income parents' perceptions of the importance of a musical training programme for their children: a qualitative study.
Article in BMC public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02762786 (Effectiveness of Musical Training in the Improvement of Psychological Well-being and Quality of Life of Children From Low Income Families), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers.
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Effectiveness of Musical Training in the Improvement of Psychological Well-being and Quality of Life of Children From Low Income Families
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- The intervention of music education on adolescents' subjective well-being from the perspective of sustainable development: a bibliometric review based on literature from 2000 to 2024.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Impact of Poverty on Parent-Child Relationships, Parental Stress, and Parenting Practices.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundDespite clear evidence for the effectiveness of musical training in promoting psychological well-being among underprivileged children, parents' perceptions of the importance of such training for their children remains unknown.
methodsOf the parents of 171 underprivileged preschool children in Hong Kong who had participated in a free musical training programme, 25 were randomly selected and invited to participate in individual semi-structured interviews. Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenological data analysis strategy was followed for analysing the data.
resultsThe results showed that parents identified numerous benefits of the programme for their child, including increased happiness, improved confidence, positive behavioural changes, and enhanced parent-child relationships. At the beginning of the programme, parents tended to disregard the usefulness of musical training but gradually came to recognise its importance for their children's psychological and social well-being. However, children were limited by their parents' financial constraints from participating in musical training after the free programme ended.
conclusionsThese findings imply that existing policy may overlook the psychosocial needs of underprivileged children and suggest that more resources should be allocated to facilitate the continuity and sustainability of such a free programme for this vulnerable population.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT02762786 , registered on May 5, 2016.
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